TY - JOUR
T1 - Computational Imaging With Dynamic Metasurfaces
T2 - A Recipe for Simple and Low-Cost Microwave Imaging
AU - Sleasman, Timothy
AU - Imani, Mohammadreza F.
AU - Diebold, Aaron V.
AU - Boyarsky, Michael
AU - Trofatter, Kenneth P.
AU - Smith, David R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1990-2011 IEEE.
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - We review the evolution of metasurface antennas for computational microwave imaging and highlight the advantages and disadvantages of various configurations. As an illustrative example, we examine a computational imaging system comprising dynamic printed metasurface cavities as modular building blocks. These metasurface cavities can generate a multitude of spatially diverse, voltage-controlled illumination patterns, and can therefore encode a scene's reflectivity distribution into a set of measurements that can be postprocessed to produce an image. These single-port devices act as transmitters (Txs) and/or receivers (Rxs) and can be combined to create an electrically large aperture with a reduced number of (expensive and cumbersome) radio-frequency (RF) components. Here, we present some of the unique possibilities made possible by a dynamic metasurface imager. Specifically, we demonstrate high quality imaging with a reduced bandwidth of operation-as narrow as a single frequency. We then provide performance predictions for the case when dynamic metasurface cavities are used to image humans, as might be relevant in many security-screening applications. We conclude by describing the outlook of metasurfaces for imaging and identifying several future directions.
AB - We review the evolution of metasurface antennas for computational microwave imaging and highlight the advantages and disadvantages of various configurations. As an illustrative example, we examine a computational imaging system comprising dynamic printed metasurface cavities as modular building blocks. These metasurface cavities can generate a multitude of spatially diverse, voltage-controlled illumination patterns, and can therefore encode a scene's reflectivity distribution into a set of measurements that can be postprocessed to produce an image. These single-port devices act as transmitters (Txs) and/or receivers (Rxs) and can be combined to create an electrically large aperture with a reduced number of (expensive and cumbersome) radio-frequency (RF) components. Here, we present some of the unique possibilities made possible by a dynamic metasurface imager. Specifically, we demonstrate high quality imaging with a reduced bandwidth of operation-as narrow as a single frequency. We then provide performance predictions for the case when dynamic metasurface cavities are used to image humans, as might be relevant in many security-screening applications. We conclude by describing the outlook of metasurfaces for imaging and identifying several future directions.
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U2 - 10.1109/MAP.2022.3169395
DO - 10.1109/MAP.2022.3169395
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130471470
SN - 1045-9243
VL - 64
SP - 123
EP - 134
JO - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
JF - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
IS - 4
ER -